It's a common pro-choice argument that you see quite often. To oppose abortion (or even fail to grant it anything less than full unquestioning support) is misogyny. The sincere belief that a viable fetus has moral value is just a cover for what is really a desire to punish sexually liberated women. Or so the narrative goes.
That outside rare and tragic circumstances of medical necessity it is immoral to destroy a human fetus. I see no moral distinction between (most) abortions and infanticide. The taking of innocent human life for no other reason than adult convenience is the moral crime of our times.
This is a diversion from the issue. Animal life does not carry the same moral weight as human life. That does not mean we should be cruel to animals but as far as abortion is concerned the moral consideration is strictly concerned with human life. And all that human potential which has been thrown away. It's going to be karmic when the population really begins to age.
It spoke volumes to our moral insanity (on the issue of animal life) when people were outraged that a zoo had to shoot a gorilla to save a human child. Yes, the child should never have been there but there was no question that the zoo did the right thing in the circumstances. Being upset that a gorilla died is sentiment. Thinking it was a bad thing to kill a gorilla to save a human child is sentimentality. A culpable abandonment of moral reason for selfish emotion.
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